Already we are inclined to reckon genius a mere faculty of saying, not of knowing, since it opens a common experience in every example.
Let us rather keep the level of common experience, and disclose the incursions of spirit which light a humble life.
Narrated as it is of no specified place and of no one year of his journey, it may stand, and perhaps it was meant to stand, for a common experience of China in the period of Mongol decadence.
But as soon as the regular trade to the East begins, we find it a common experience.
It is a matter of common experience that we do form habits and that education and social control are largely dependent upon our ability to establish habits in ourselves and in others.
They are more or less conventionalized, objective, and intelligible symbols that have been defined in terms of a common experience or, as the logicians say, of a universe of discourse.
The individual units, as a result of intimate association, interpenetrate, so to speak, and come in this way into possession of a common experience and a common tradition.
Communication is a process by which we "transmit" an experience from an individual to another but it is also a process by which these same individuals get a common experience.
Rules current in the field of common experience, and which common sense stamps everywhere with its approval, are regarded by them as axiomatic.
We should only be able to say, "so common experience teaches us," but not "it must be so.
But two possible sources are easily suggested by common experience: is it deposited from the air, like the moisture upon a mirror when we breathe upon it; or does it exude from the bodies themselves, like gum or turpentine?
That this is more probable, common experience proves, as Orestes was but the other day a king, and is now a beggar.
In this poem Catullus throws himself, with marvellous power, into a character and situation utterly alien to common experience, and pours an intense flood of human feeling and passion into a legend of strange Oriental fanaticism.
I don't know whether this is at all a common experience, but in those days (and farther back in my early boyhood) I had it frequently.
Mr. Stanley hastily put his pipe back into his mouth and confusedly searched in his pockets for a match; but I knew I had struck down deep into a common experience.
I wonder if this is at all a common experience, or whether I was unduly sensitive that day, unduly wrought up?
In Matters of Common Experience Witnesses in General Often State Conclusions.
The highest are those where an illusion of opening distance or other movement is provided, and the second class are where natural scenes of common experience, under common conditions of atmosphere, are faithfully reproduced.
Naturally the term "common experience" has a varied application.
What is ofcommon experience in scenery among people in a temperate climate, is rare or unknown to those living under the burning sun of Africa.
Similar beings herding together in the same places are naturally subject to simultaneous reactions, and the sense of this common reaction makes possible the conception of many minds having a common experience.
Science, then, is the attentive consideration of common experience; it is common knowledge extended and refined.
For two years he did his best to teach the quarrelling sects in Pennsylvania to help and esteem each other; and the bond of union he set before them was a common experience of the redeeming grace of Christ.
To consider these phaenomena of the porter and letter in a certain light, they are contradictions to common experience, and may be regarded as objections to those maxims, which we form concerning the connexions of causes and effects.
And this is confirmed by common experience, which informs us, that men are often governed by their duties, and are detered from some actions by the opinion of injustice, and impelled to others by that of obligation.
I want to approach the apostle's central teaching along roads which will gather up the testimony of common experience.
That is it, and it offers a striking symbol of a common experience.
Yes, indeed, men wear a splendid helmet, even in the ways of common experience, when they wear the helmet of hope.
Community of sensation is as common a phenomenon as community of thought between a hypnotizer and his subject, and what are called sympathetic pains are included in common experience.
That they do see is common experience, and that they see farther, and therefore better, with the psychic sense than with the physical has been often proved.
But, as stated above, the differences of import or meaning, even in dream life, of any particular symbol is a common experience.
But they do not stop there: they go on to take practical distinctions, based on common experience.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "common experience" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
